UpperMerionAreaMiddle School Bucket List
100 Books To Read Before You StartHigh School
(in alphabetical order)
- 13 Reasons Why
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Alex Rider Seriesby Anthony Horowitz
- Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- An Acquaintance With Darkness
- Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
- Black Mirror: a Novelby Nancy Werlin
- Boy Who Dared
- Breadwinnerby Deborah Ellis
- By the Time You Read This I’ll be Dead by Julie Anne Peters
- Chasing Lincoln’s Killer by James Swanson
- The Contenderby Robert Lipsyte
- Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
- Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
- Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank
- Double Helixby Nancy Werlin
- Double Identity by Margaret Petersen Haddix
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Emily Goldberg Learns to Salsa by Micol Ostow
- Eragonby Christopher Paolini
- Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the AfricanSavannaby Joseph Lekuton
- Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
- Faraway Tree Collectionby Enid Blyton
- Fever 1793by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- Found, Sent, Sabotaged by Margaret Peterson Haddix
- A Gift from Childhood: Memories of an AfricanBoyhoodby Baba Wague Diakite
- Giver, Gathering Blue, Messenger by Lois Lowry
- Glory Field by Walter Dean Myers
- Gone with Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Good Enough by Paula Yoo
- Grey Kingby Susan Cooper
- Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
- Hero by Mike Lupica
- His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
- Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Holes by Loius Sachar
- House of Scorpion by Nancy Farmer.
- House of Dies Drear by Virgina Hamilton
- Hunger Gamesby Suzanne Collins
- Hush by Jacqueline Woodson
- I am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
- I Have Lived a Thousand Yearsby Livia Bitton-Jackson
- If You Come Softly, Behind Youby Jacqueline Woodson
- Inkheart, Inkspell, Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke
- Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
- Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
- IraqiGirl: Diary of a Teenage Girl in Iraqby Iraqirl
- The KillingSea: A Novel of the Tsunami by Richard Lewis
- Life as We Knew It, The Dead and the Goneby Susan Beth Pfeffer
- The Lion, the Witch and The Wardrobe (Narnia) by C. S. Lewis
- The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
- A Long Walk to Water
- Lord of Flies by William Golding
- Lord of Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
- Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
- Maximum Ride byJames Patterson
- Maze Runner, Scorch Trials , Deathcure by James Dashner
- Monsterby Walter Dean Myers
- The Mzungu Boy by Meja Mwangi
- No Safe Placeby Deborah Ellis
- Out of Dust by Karen Hesse
- Outcasts of 19 Shuyler Placeby E.L. Konigsburg
- Prom by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
- Rumblefish by S.E. Hinton
- The Rules of Survivalby Nancy Werlin
- Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers
- Sea of Trollsby Nancy Farmer
- SecretGardenby Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Shooter by Walter Dean Myers
- A Separate Peace.
- Sing Down the Moon by Scott O’Dell
- Sisterhood of Travelling Pantsby Anne Brashares
- Skellig by David Almond
- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Summer of My German Soldierby Bette Greene
- A Summer to Die
- Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
- Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer
- Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Tangerine by Edward Bloor
- Taming the Star Runner by S. E. Hinton
- Texby S. E. Hinton
- That Was Then, This Is Nowby S. E. Hinton
- A Time for Dancing
- A Time of Miracles by Anne-Laure Bondoux
- Tripod series, by John Christopher
- True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
- Unwind by Neal Shusterman
- Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
- Watership Down: A Novel by Richard Adams
- Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher,
- Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Wreckers by Iain Lawrence
- WutheringHeightsby Emily Bronte
- Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings